The Floor Is Deadly: Hot Lava

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Everyone here has played the game where you jump from one piece of furniture to another because the floor has inexplicably become deadly, right? In the version I played growing up, couch cushions could be thrown across the room to make stepping stones, and there would usually be an argument as to whether standing on a pair of slippers that had been left lying on the floor was allowed (if you could stand on them and be safe, couldn’t you just wear them and be invincible?).

Klei, masters of many genres, are working on a game that takes childhood make-believe onto your computer. In first-person parkour game Hot Lava [official site], the floor is deadly.

There are some outlandish environments in that trailer. I immediately feel that my preference will be for the houses and schools, places in which the game would actually be played rather than enormous, extravagant versions that actually look like they might conceivably be filled with lava and acrobatic heroics. Progression is a good thing though, and I doubt I’d want to hop around a bedroom for days on end. Klei’s description of the game suggests that there will be context for the larger levels:

Hot Lava transports you back to your childhood imagination. Relive those moments of excitement, joy and chaos. Traverse distinct worlds, from school hallways to the memories of your darkest fears. This is a game of dexterity and ingenuity, you will have to use all your skills to complete the treacherous obstacles that await.

The concept instantly reminded of Cult of The Wind, the game in which you play as a person pretending to be a plane and have dogfights with your chums. What other childhood games of make-believe would make for good entertainment? I’d go for a hide and seek game with a neat twist, provided it didn’t turn into Five Nights at Freddy’s.

I like “The game where you tie a friend to a tree and then start shooting arrows at him because he is a dirty cowboy” also called “Captive Cowboy Target Practice” some people liked to play “The game where you kick other people in the shin or push them over to get a ball across a field and into a box with a net”, most people called it “Shoot Ball into Box” though.

Absolutely not! That’s that hoity toity game that is only played on that one island that once was a great empire but now is slowly twisting itself apart also called “Somewhat Big Isle of Several Kingdoms” right?

Standing on the slippers seems fine to me. Obviously you couldn’t wear them, they must be made of rock (or maybe titanium or something) or they’d melt. They’ll be much too heavy to actually use as footware.
I suppose perhaps you could walk v e r y s l o w l y in them, but that might give other players ideas about tipping you over while you’re in mid-stride…

I used to walk around the house looking down into a mirror, walking over doorways and otherwise trying to get around without falling onto and through the ceiling. Staircases were pretty intimidating, but we had banisters.